AfroCubaWeb Archives 1/05-12/05

Features ==> Under the Radar - A Survey of Afro-Cuban Music Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, And National Identity Eugène Godfried Lazaro Ros 1925-2005 General Antonio Maceo y Grajales Ekpe Festival: Ebongo Masquarade, Calabar, Nigeria Excilia Saldaña Pedro Pérez Sarduy is teaching in the US, Fall '04 Garvey in Cuba, 7/04 Abakuá and Efiks Marta Rojas, writer & journalist Teresa Cardenas, poet & writer	Worldwide music tour schedules: Hear samples, buy CDs. See also Music in Cuba 10th Annual Exploration in AfroCuban Dance & Drum, Humboldt State University, July 24 - 30th, 2005 Cubadisco 2005: 5/21-5/29, Havana. Los Muñequitos to play 5/22. Yoruba Andabo to Release Album in Cubadisco 2005, 5/25/05 The Summit Afro Cuban/African drum and dance workshop, May 19 - 23, 2005, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada. Tony Pérez to play in Boston - 5/20/05, One Night Only, Christ Church Cambridge Cuban Gala Eliades Ochoa / Afro Cuban All Stars: Europe, 5/05 - 8-05. See them at the Barbican, London, 5/11/05 Raíces Habaneras to play at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Long Island City, on 5/7/05. Screening of Inventos: Hip Hop Cubanos, followed by panel discussion, Hunter College, New York City, 4/19/05 Noches Cubanas: Chico Alvarez, Gene Golden, Orlando "Puntilla" Rios, Candido, & others, New York City, 4/15/05 Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, And National Identity by Christine Ayorinde, just released 3/05 Ife-Ile Dance Company Presents Sixth Annual Baila USA Dance Festival 2005: 6/9/05 - 6/12/05, Miami Robin Moore reviews Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba, 3/05 Lazaro Ros, Cuba's greatest Yoruba singer, dies on 2/8/05 Race, Class and Culture: Research into the Cuban Experience. Led by Cuban writer, poet and lecturer Pedro Pérez -Sarduy, Havana, May 21 to 28, 2005 Gloria Rolando videos available 3/05: Oggun - with Lazaro Ros, My Footsteps in Baraguá, and El Alacrán. VIII INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AFRICANISTICS IN THE CARIBBEAN Dedicated to the culture of the Yoruba. April 5th - April 9th 2005, Santiago de Cuba III International Meeting Of Popular And Formal Dances - The Universe Dances With Cuba , 9/26/05-10/2/05 The Summit Afro Cuban/African drum and dance workshop, May 19 - 23, 2005, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada Superb Cuban pianist finds happiness in Hub jazz scene, 1/12/05 - Boston Herald features Osmany Paredes International Ekpe Festival, Calabar & Uyo, Nigeria: 12/13/04 - 12/18/04: Cuban Abakuá attended, great set of photos showing relationships between Calabar & Cuba Superb Cuban pianist finds happiness in Hub jazz scene, 1/12/05 - Boston Herald features Osmany Paredes. Havana Nights show held over in Las Vegas until 1/11/05 Most of the cast defects. AfroCubaWeb reaches 144,000 visits /month in February '05, according to our site statistics. "In the Vortex of the Cyclone": Selected Poems by Excilia Saldaña: A Bilingual Edition out with foreword by Nancy Morejón, 9/04 Afro-Cuban Religious Expressions, 12/2004, 2/2005, & 3/2005 Rare US based opportunity to learn in Cuba under a religious license Support the artists: get Pello's sheet music for bata, Flor Amalia's script, and Gloria Rolando's films. This is legal trade that benefits these artists. FolkCuba 7/05 - Classes with the internationally acclaimed Conjunto Foklorico Nacional de Cuba in Havana. See their new website. AfroCubaWeb reaches 130,000 visits/month in April '04, according to our site statistics. Among the top referrers are hip hop sites. … social, intelectuar y chic ... Choco, Diago y Mendive en La Cita de Biarritz por Pedro Pérez Sarduy 11/2/03 ENTREVISTA CON EL PINTOR ROBERTO DIAGO en Biarritz, Francia 9/30/03 por Pedro Pérez Sarduy Recorrido de Manuel Mendive por países de Africa, 9/9/03 Photo gallery added 9/26 and 10/5. Film maker Gloria Rolando to visit US in Fall '04 for premier of the English version of Roots of My Heart on the 1912 massacre of AfroCubans and Los Marqueses de Atarés on a carnival comparsa in Havana. We feature critiques of author and journalist Marta Rojas' two novels. Extracts from Pedro Pérez Sarduy's novel Las Criadas de La Habana and other works, 10/02. See also In Living Memory - he remembers his great grandmother Sabue born in Africa. Nicolás Guillén y el Modernismo Hispanoamericano by Keith Ellis, 10/02 El Tratamiento del Tema Negro en el Rap, Tomás Fernández Robaina, 8/02 Recent Trotter Group coverage of Gloria Rolando and her film on 1912, 6/02 Nancy Morejón wins Cuba's 2001 National Prize for Litterature, 2/02. We have her PALABRAS POR EL PREMIO NACIONAL DE LITERATURA New Gloria Rolando - Images of the Caribbean documentary: "Los marqueses de Atarés" premieres in Havana, features the carnival comparsa and famed AfroCuban actor Alden Knight. 2/02 Poet and writer Teresa Cárdenas Angulo's poem, A Nice Day, 3/02 Con Natalia Bolívar, 2002 Support the artists: get Pello's sheet music for bata, Flor Amalia's script, and Gloria Rolando's films. This is legal trade that benefits these artists. Susana Arenas Pedroso, a Matancera formerly with Raices Profunda, is giving dance classes in the Bay Area. Expert Afrocuba de Matanzas percussionist Ramon "Sandy" Garcia has moved to the Bay Area and is also giving classes. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Música (CIDMUC) has a great atlas of Cuban music: Atlas de los Instrumentos Folklórico-Popular de Cuba. See also Olavo Alen's History of the Congas. Numerous dancers and percussionists from Cuba are teaching in the US and Europe, listed under Workshops.	Our News page has Cuba News, Cuban Cultural News, Cuba Travel News, and Cuba: Race & Identity in the News -- updated with articles from Cuban and foreign media. We also track news from Venezuela, Colombia, and Haiti. FolkCuba 7/05 - Classes with the internationally acclaimed Conjunto Foklorico Nacional de Cuba in Havana. Kiba Kreyol '05 International Festival 7/23/05 to 7/25/05, Havana - Haitians in Cuba. Meet Carlos Rosero, Process of Black Communities in Colombia (PCN), Dorchester, MA 6/23/05 Under the Radar - A Survey of Afro-Cuban Music premiers at the Chicago Latino Film Festival, 4/8/05 Domino Sugar workers against the Fanjuls, 2/05 Carlos Aldama, past director of the Conjunto Folklorico Nacional and Omo Aña, gives lessons in Bay Area Curaçao journalist Eugene Godfried seriously ill in Havana. Funds being raised to support him, 2/05. Ysidro Valor teaches song, percussion in Portland, OR. Dialogue In Santiago De Cuba With Joel Mourlot Mercaderes On Antonio Maceo Y Grajales “Freedom Worker” by Eugène Godfried, 11/04 Dialogo En Santiago De Cuba Con Joel Mourlot Mercaderes: Antonio Maceo y Grajales, de Eugène Godfried, 11/04 La Maya y la Masacre de 1912: Eugène Godfried En Dialogo Con Maritza Elias, 11/04 Teresa de la Caridad Doval Page and her books, "A Girl Like Che" and Las Posesas de la Havana, 9/04 Cuban Popular Music: Renewal Efforts From Above, by Eugène Godfried, 9/04 The African Cuban Diaspora’s Cultural Shelters and Their Sudden Disappearance in 1959, by Eugène Godfried, 8/04 Dialogue with Juan Cruz, Past President, ‘Marianao Club Social’ - La Havana, by Eugène Godfried, 8/6/04 Dialogue with Founding Leaders of Guantanamo’s Social Club ‘La Nueva Era’ by Eugène Godfried, 8/6/04 La Protesta de Baragua: Culture and Popular Music Have the Last Word -- They Say What the Official Culture Can’t, 8/3/04, by Eugène Godfried Alto Songo - Son in popular culture and history: resistance and liberation, by Eugène Godfried, 7/04 José Martí y el Racismo: Su Visita a Curazao, by Eugène Godfried, 7/04. English version at José Martí and Racism: His Visit to Curaçao. Maroons and Palenques in Guantanamo Province - Eugène Godfried interviews Diego Bosch Ferrer, historian and Director of Cultural Patrimony, Guantánamo Province, 7/04 Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Cuba by Eugène Godfried, 6/04 The Missing Cuban Musicians, a 34 page report on Bush's Cuban music ban, by Ned Sublette and immigration attorney Bill Martinez, Cuba Research & Analysis Group, 6/24/04 Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, 6/04: Ned Sublette's powerful new book on the history of Cuban music to 1952, now published. Images of the Caribbean in Havana premiers a new film directed by Gloria Rolando, "Nosotros y el Jazz" - Havana youths in the 40's make friends around US jazz culture, 2/12/04 Interview with Harry Belafonte on Cuba, 10/25/03 by Sandra Levinson La Santería en el ámbito social cubano. Awo Òrúnmìlà Ògúndá Ìwòrì. Víctor Betancourt Omolófaoró y Yesenia Selier Crespo, Ifa Iranlowo, la Habana, 10/5/03 Bata y Bembe de Matanzas I: La presentación de un Iyawo de Chango: new CD from 6/8 Media. Los Muñequitos' Ricardo Cané obituary - obituario, 6/10/03 Conjunto Folklórico Nacional plays every Saturday in Havana. We have their 3 page spread in Cuba Internacional, 10/02. See also a report on their presentation at the Biennal de Dance, Lyon, France 9/02. More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa by Susan Greenbaum: the story of Sociedad La Union Martí - Maceo. Judith Bettelheim's CUBAN FESTIVALS: A Century of Afro-Cuban Culture now out, with translation of Ortiz's "The Afro-Cuban Festival Day of the Kings" The poet El Ambia and Soy Todo, "I am all that" - Pedro Perez Sarduy, 9/01 Nigerian Efiks and Cuban Abakuá re-unite in New York, 8/01 Cuba en una perspectiva caribeña, Eugenio Godfried, 8/01 Pedro Perez -Sarduy on the rap group Orisha: Marginalization and Representation in Afro-Cuban Hip-Hop, 8/01 Radio Havana's Eugene Godfried questions Fidel advisors' role on racial issues: Reflections On Race And The Status Of People Of African Descent In Revolutionary Cuba, 2/01 Assata Shakur poster with Askia Touré's poem "Palenque Queen by Habana's Shores" now available, as are some books by Askia. AfroCubaWeb Home Page Archive: 2004 AfroCubaWeb Home Page Archive: 2003 AfroCubaWeb Home Page Archive: 2002 AfroCubaWeb Home Page Archive: 1999-2001
Members of the Party: the Independents of Color Founder Evaristo Estenoz in the center

Cubadisco 2005: 5/21-5/29, Havana. Los Muñequitos to play 5/22. Yoruba Andabo to Release Album in Cubadisco 2005, 5/25/05

The Summit Afro Cuban/African drum and dance workshop, May 19 - 23, 2005, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada.

Tony Pérez to play in Boston - 5/20/05, One Night Only, Christ Church Cambridge Cuban Gala

Eliades Ochoa / Afro Cuban All Stars: Europe, 5/05 - 8-05. See them at the Barbican, London, 5/11/05

Raíces Habaneras to play at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Long Island City, on 5/7/05.

Screening of Inventos: Hip Hop Cubanos, followed by panel discussion, Hunter College, New York City, 4/19/05

Noches Cubanas: Chico Alvarez, Gene Golden, Orlando "Puntilla" Rios, Candido, & others, New York City, 4/15/05

Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, And National Identity by Christine Ayorinde, just released 3/05

Ife-Ile Dance Company Presents Sixth Annual Baila USA Dance Festival 2005: 6/9/05 - 6/12/05, Miami

Robin Moore reviews Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba, 3/05

Lazaro Ros, Cuba's greatest Yoruba singer, dies on 2/8/05

Race, Class and Culture: Research into the Cuban Experience. Led by Cuban writer, poet and lecturer Pedro Pérez -Sarduy, Havana, May 21 to 28, 2005

Gloria Rolando videos available 3/05: Oggun - with Lazaro Ros, My Footsteps in Baraguá, and El Alacrán.

VIII INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AFRICANISTICS IN THE CARIBBEAN Dedicated to the culture of the Yoruba. April 5th - April 9th 2005, Santiago de Cuba

III International Meeting Of Popular And Formal Dances - The Universe Dances With Cuba , 9/26/05-10/2/05

The Summit Afro Cuban/African drum and dance workshop, May 19 - 23, 2005, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada

Superb Cuban pianist finds happiness in Hub jazz scene, 1/12/05 - Boston Herald features Osmany Paredes

International Ekpe Festival, Calabar & Uyo, Nigeria: 12/13/04 - 12/18/04: Cuban Abakuá attended, great set of photos showing relationships between Calabar & Cuba

Superb Cuban pianist finds happiness in Hub jazz scene, 1/12/05 - Boston Herald features Osmany Paredes.

Havana Nights show held over in Las Vegas until 1/11/05 Most of the cast defects.

AfroCubaWeb reaches 144,000 visits /month in February '05, according to our site statistics.

"In the Vortex of the Cyclone": Selected Poems by Excilia Saldaña: A Bilingual Edition out with foreword by Nancy Morejón, 9/04

Afro-Cuban Religious Expressions, 12/2004, 2/2005, & 3/2005 Rare US based opportunity to learn in Cuba under a religious license

Support the artists: get Pello's sheet music for bata, Flor Amalia's script, and Gloria Rolando's films. This is legal trade that benefits these artists.

FolkCuba 7/05 - Classes with the internationally acclaimed Conjunto Foklorico Nacional de Cuba in Havana. See their new website.

AfroCubaWeb reaches 130,000 visits/month in April '04, according to our site statistics. Among the top referrers are hip hop sites.

… social, intelectuar y chic ... Choco, Diago y Mendive en La Cita de Biarritz por Pedro Pérez Sarduy 11/2/03

ENTREVISTA CON EL PINTOR ROBERTO DIAGO en Biarritz, Francia 9/30/03 por Pedro Pérez Sarduy

Recorrido de Manuel Mendive por países de Africa, 9/9/03 Photo gallery added 9/26 and 10/5.

Film maker Gloria Rolando to visit US in Fall '04 for premier of the English version of Roots of My Heart on the 1912 massacre of AfroCubans and Los Marqueses de Atarés on a carnival comparsa in Havana.

We feature critiques of author and journalist Marta Rojas' two novels.

Extracts from Pedro Pérez Sarduy's novel Las Criadas de La Habana and other works, 10/02. See also In Living Memory - he remembers his great grandmother Sabue born in Africa.

Nicolás Guillén y el Modernismo Hispanoamericano by Keith Ellis, 10/02

El Tratamiento del Tema Negro en el Rap, Tomás Fernández Robaina, 8/02

Recent Trotter Group coverage of Gloria Rolando and her film on 1912, 6/02

Nancy Morejón wins Cuba's 2001 National Prize for Litterature, 2/02. We have her PALABRAS POR EL PREMIO NACIONAL DE LITERATURA

New Gloria Rolando - Images of the Caribbean documentary: "Los marqueses de Atarés" premieres in Havana, features the carnival comparsa and famed AfroCuban actor Alden Knight. 2/02

Poet and writer Teresa Cárdenas Angulo's poem, A Nice Day, 3/02

Con Natalia Bolívar, 2002

Support the artists: get Pello's sheet music for bata, Flor Amalia's script, and Gloria Rolando's films. This is legal trade that benefits these artists.

Susana Arenas Pedroso, a Matancera formerly with Raices Profunda, is giving dance classes in the Bay Area.
Expert Afrocuba de Matanzas percussionist Ramon "Sandy" Garcia has moved to the Bay Area and is also giving classes.

Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Música (CIDMUC) has a great atlas of Cuban music: Atlas de los Instrumentos Folklórico-Popular de Cuba. See also Olavo Alen's History of the Congas.

Numerous dancers and percussionists from Cuba are teaching in the US and Europe, listed under Workshops.

Our News page has Cuba News, Cuban Cultural News, Cuba Travel News, and Cuba: Race & Identity in the News -- updated with articles from Cuban and foreign media. We also track news from Venezuela, Colombia, and Haiti.

FolkCuba 7/05 - Classes with the internationally acclaimed Conjunto Foklorico Nacional de Cuba in Havana.

Kiba Kreyol '05 International Festival
7/23/05 to 7/25/05, Havana - Haitians in Cuba.

Meet Carlos Rosero, Process of Black Communities in Colombia (PCN), Dorchester, MA 6/23/05

Under the Radar - A Survey of Afro-Cuban Music premiers at the Chicago Latino Film Festival, 4/8/05

Domino Sugar workers against the Fanjuls, 2/05

Carlos Aldama, past director of the Conjunto Folklorico Nacional and Omo Aña, gives lessons in Bay Area

Curaçao journalist Eugene Godfried seriously ill in Havana. Funds being raised to support him, 2/05.

Ysidro Valor teaches song, percussion in Portland, OR.

Dialogue In Santiago De Cuba With Joel Mourlot Mercaderes On Antonio Maceo Y Grajales “Freedom Worker” by Eugène Godfried, 11/04

Dialogo En Santiago De Cuba Con Joel Mourlot Mercaderes: Antonio Maceo y Grajales, de Eugène Godfried, 11/04

La Maya y la Masacre de 1912: Eugène Godfried En Dialogo Con Maritza Elias, 11/04

Teresa de la Caridad Doval Page and her books, "A Girl Like Che" and Las Posesas de la Havana, 9/04

Cuban Popular Music: Renewal Efforts From Above, by Eugène Godfried, 9/04

The African Cuban Diaspora’s Cultural Shelters and Their Sudden Disappearance in 1959, by Eugène Godfried, 8/04

Dialogue with Juan Cruz, Past President, ‘Marianao Club Social’ - La Havana, by Eugène Godfried, 8/6/04

Dialogue with Founding Leaders of Guantanamo’s Social Club ‘La Nueva Era’ by Eugène Godfried, 8/6/04

La Protesta de Baragua: Culture and Popular Music Have the Last Word -- They Say What the Official Culture Can’t, 8/3/04, by Eugène Godfried

Alto Songo - Son in popular culture and history: resistance and liberation, by Eugène Godfried, 7/04

José Martí y el Racismo: Su Visita a Curazao, by Eugène Godfried, 7/04. English version at José Martí and Racism: His Visit to Curaçao.

Maroons and Palenques in Guantanamo Province - Eugène Godfried interviews Diego Bosch Ferrer, historian and Director of Cultural Patrimony, Guantánamo Province, 7/04

Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Cuba by Eugène Godfried, 6/04

The Missing Cuban Musicians, a 34 page report on Bush's Cuban music ban, by Ned Sublette and immigration attorney Bill Martinez, Cuba Research & Analysis Group, 6/24/04

Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, 6/04: Ned Sublette's powerful new book on the history of Cuban music to 1952, now published.

Images of the Caribbean in Havana premiers a new film directed by Gloria Rolando, "Nosotros y el Jazz" - Havana youths in the 40's make friends around US jazz culture, 2/12/04

Interview with Harry Belafonte on Cuba, 10/25/03 by Sandra Levinson

La Santería en el ámbito social cubano. Awo Òrúnmìlà Ògúndá Ìwòrì. Víctor Betancourt Omolófaoró y Yesenia Selier Crespo, Ifa Iranlowo, la Habana, 10/5/03

Bata y Bembe de Matanzas I: La presentación de un Iyawo de Chango: new CD from 6/8 Media.

Los Muñequitos' Ricardo Cané obituary - obituario, 6/10/03

Conjunto Folklórico Nacional plays every Saturday in Havana. We have their 3 page spread in Cuba Internacional, 10/02. See also a report on their presentation at the Biennal de Dance, Lyon, France 9/02.

More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa by Susan Greenbaum: the story of Sociedad La Union Martí - Maceo.

Judith Bettelheim's CUBAN FESTIVALS: A Century of Afro-Cuban Culture now out, with translation of Ortiz's "The Afro-Cuban Festival Day of the Kings"

The poet El Ambia and Soy Todo, "I am all that" - Pedro Perez Sarduy, 9/01

Nigerian Efiks and Cuban Abakuá re-unite in New York, 8/01

Cuba en una perspectiva caribeña, Eugenio Godfried, 8/01

Pedro Perez -Sarduy on the rap group Orisha: Marginalization and Representation in Afro-Cuban Hip-Hop, 8/01

Radio Havana's Eugene Godfried questions Fidel advisors' role on racial issues: Reflections On Race And The Status Of People Of African Descent In Revolutionary Cuba, 2/01

Assata Poster
Assata Shakur poster with Askia Touré's poem "Palenque Queen by Habana's Shores" now available, as are some books by Askia.

AfroCubaWeb Home Page Archive: 2004

AfroCubaWeb Home Page Archive: 2003

AfroCubaWeb Home Page Archive: 2002

AfroCubaWeb Home Page Archive: 1999-2001

Members of the Party:
the Independents of Color

Founder Evaristo Estenoz in the center

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